Connecting Customers, Business and Technology

Manjunath Bhat

VP Analyst - Gartner

Manjunath (Manju) Bhat is a Research VP covering practices, technologies and tools related to DevOps, SRE, cloud, automation, software engineering and open-source software. Mr. Bhat advises clients on a range of software engineering, security engineering and platform engineering initiatives.

Manjunath regularly advises clients on how to apply software engineering practices to infrastructure delivery and drive higher business value from cloud-enabled innovation. He sees the shift from project to product and platform based operating models, transition to cloud native architectures and AI in software engineering as three tectonic shifts.

Adept at building and leading R&D teams from the ground-up. Had the opportunity to build the VMware AirWatch India operations as its first employee and tasked with the enviable job of building a world-class R&D organization from scratch. AirWatch was acquired by VMware in 2014.

Prior to that, graduated from developer to architect of scalable,fault-tolerant,load-balanced, high volume, mission-critical transactional systems. Responsible for the technical architecture of a heavily customized implementation of warehouse automation software that powered one of the world's biggest warehouses for AVON in 2009.

Subject Matter expert in DevOps, cloud automation, software engineering, open-source software. Past experience in building endpoint management and warehouse automation software.

Veronica Tan

Director - Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

Veronica leads the Safer Cyberspace initiatives in the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore, where she led the development of risk management frameworks to help organisations to navigate their cybersecurity risks. This manifested in the form of the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust national cybersecurity certification standards, published as Technical Reference 106:2022.

Prior to cybersecurity, Veronica was developing emerging technology roadmaps in IMDA to support Singapore's Digital Economy efforts where she led emerging technology programmes for blockchain and AI-related Human-Machine Collaboration (HMC).

Before joining public sector, Veronica was in a network engineering role managing carrier-grade networks in a leading Internet service provider.

Nilesh Gule

Enterprise Architect - DBS Bank

Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities.

Nilesh is passionate about learning, adopting, and experimenting with new technologies, and sharing his knowledge and insights through blogging, speaking, and organizing events. He is a certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps, and Data Engineer Associate, and a co-organizer of the Microsoft Azure Singapore user group. He lives by the motto of coding with passion and striving for excellence.

Enguerran Dallet

Executive Director, Data Science, Group Data Office - OCBC

Enguerran Dallet is an esteemed executive director of data science at the AI Lab of OCBC, one of the leading financial institutions globally. In this influential role, he spearheads the delivery of data science projects across multiple entities within the group, with a primary focus on increasing revenue, reducing attrition, driving cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, and implementing innovative pricing strategies.

Under Enguerran's astute leadership, his team has successfully implemented cutting-edge data science solutions that have significantly impacted the organization's bottom line. By leveraging advanced analytics and machine learning techniques, they have unlocked valuable insights from vast datasets, empowering decision-makers to make informed and strategic choices.

Prior to joining OCBC, Enguerran held the position of Head of Data Science at SparesCNX, a groundbreaking start-up dedicated to revolutionizing the spare parts supply chain. During his tenure, he led a team of data scientists in developing state-of-the-art algorithms and predictive models that optimized inventory management, reduced costs, and enhanced operational efficiency for clients.

Enguerran's illustrious career also includes leadership positions at renowned organizations such as Citibank, Pfizer, and Solvay. In each role, he consistently demonstrated his exceptional ability to leverage data science to drive business growth and deliver tangible results.

With an impressive 15 years of experience in the field, Enguerran possesses a wealth of knowledge and expertise in data science. He holds a Master's degree in Financial Engineering from the prestigious Bordeaux Institute of Technology, further solidifying his strong foundation in both finance and technology.

Beyond his professional achievements, Enguerran is known for his passion for continuous learning and innovation. He actively participates in industry conferences, publishes research papers, and mentors aspiring data scientists, all in an effort to stay at the forefront of the ever-evolving field of data science.

Enguerran Dallet's remarkable track record, leadership acumen, and unwavering commitment to leveraging data for strategic decision-making make him a highly sought-after expert in the industry. His contributions to the advancement of data science have not only transformed organizations but also paved the way for a data-driven future in the financial sector.

Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath

APAC Lead, Solutions & Presales Engineering - Wise

A bright, talented and ambitious Solutions Engineer with a strong technical background who possesses self-discipline and the ability to work independently. Customer-centric who always drives the customer needs from pre-sales to delivery to post go-live support. Play a key role throughout the development life cycle of a project to ensure that quality solutions meet business objectives. Possess good team spirit, deadline oriented and able to organize complex solutions clearly and accurately.

Sutowo Wong

Director, Health Analytics Division - Ministry of Health Singapore

Sutowo is an effectively bilingual Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) leader who has successfully implemented large and complex digital transformation programmes. The largest transformation programme (~$100 million budget) that he led required him to work with ~200 stakeholders, integrate diverse requirements and manage trade-offs.

He thrived in entrepreneurial environment – he built a consulting practice from scratch in a global consulting firm. He demonstrated that he could work with ambiguity – he accepted a role without job description and successfully navigated complex organisational landscape, obtained approval from senior management to refresh analytics operating model, reorganise its analytics functions and set up a new analytics department. He has also successfully managed a merger of analytics functions and integrated talents from diverse backgrounds into a cohesive unit.

He is currently working as the Divisional Director, Health Analytics Division at Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore. He leads a team of data scientists, statisticians, epidemiologists and health economists in applying AI, machine learning (ML), operations research, systems modeling, geospatial analytics, forecasting, econometrics, visualisation and primary research in support of MOH’s priorities in policy formulation and review, service planning and operations. He is also responsible for capability development, publication, partnership and outreach with regard to data analytics and AI in MOH.

He was responsible for leading AI strategy for Public Health Sector and building ecosystem enablers needed i.e. AI governance, data and IT platforms, funding, to support the development and deployment of impactful, scalable, responsible AI solutions.

During COVID-19 pandemic, he led the ops-tech integration effort by developing end-to-end service journeys for COVID-19 patients to identify opportunities to improve patient outcomes and experience, drive IT system consolidation and improve operational processes.

He served as a member in SingHealth Board’s Service Excellence Committee (SEC) where he worked closely with SingHealth’s Senior Management to set the strategic direction to optimise patient experience across both digital and physical touchpoints.

He chaired the Technical Review Committee comprising members from MOH, Synapxe and Public Healthcare Clusters to identify learning points and obtain consensus on the immediate remediation and longer term roadmap for a troubled national-level IT implementation which was approved by Minister of Health.

Guillaume Cordina

Executive Director and Head, Open Banking & Platforms - Standard Chartered

Guillaume heads up Standard Chartered’s Open Banking and Platform team within the Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Bank.

He is responsible for driving Standard Chartered’s Open Banking API ecosystem, covering the developer portal, regulatory initiatives, partners’ integration and onboarding as well as customer success.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered in 2021, Guillaume was Senior Director of Product at Kyriba where he was responsible for delivering the product vision, strategy and roadmap execution for the Payments and Connectivity business lines. Prior to that he held multiple roles, from Software Architect to Lead Technical Consultant with ION Trading / Wall Street Systems, delivering APIs and treasury transformation for GE Capital, Ford, GM, Blackstone and Coca-Cola. He has 25 years’ experience in financial software spanning Singapore, the US and France.

He holds a degree in Software Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Nice. 

Alberto Resco Perez

Senior Director of Software Engineering - Singtel

Software Engineering Leader with near two decades of experience building complex distributed systems in different industries, such as e-commerce, telecommunications or insurance/banking. A decade of experience in South East Asia, mainly in Singapore.

Alberto is a technology leader. Supercharged about tech, never say no to anything tech-y.

During his experience, he has been through different environments and situations - from doing consulting at the very beginning of his career to currently enabling software engineers. After the amazing experience of working at CERN for 5 years, he relocated to Singapore where he has been part of the vibrant start-up scene for more than 3 years, after that he moved to Pivotal Labs where he was enabling client engineers and creating great software.

As a seasoned leader, he loves any kind of technology, he never says no to try something new when it makes sense and he believes in doing the right thing and create great software solutions.

Victoria Lo

Solutions Engineer - WomenWhoCode

Victoria is a solutions engineer, technical blogger, speaker, podcaster and WomenWhoCode Singapore leader. As a technical content writer with over 30,000 monthly reads, she writes about web development, DevOps, developer tools and career on her blog. She has spoken in podcasts, tech conferences and as a leader of WomenWhoCode Singapore, Victoria also advocates diversity and organizes events to share and promote women in tech-related news/events. Her mission is to create communities of lifelong learners.

Rajiv Matta

Engineering Head - Open Banking & Digital/API Partnerships Technology - Citi Global Wealth and Asia EMEA Consumer Bank

Quy-Doan Do

APAC Head of Data Services (Client Lines) and APAC Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation - BNP Paribas' Securities Services

Within Investment Solutions, Doan is responsible for Data Services products in Asia Pacific (APAC). He also leads the Digital Transformation and Innovation office for CIB Securities Services in APAC and supports Client Development from a Technology standpoint for strategic clients in the region. He is based in Singapore.

Doan joined the bank in 1998 in Singapore and spent most of his career within Corporate & Investment Banking Technology notably in Paris and London. Back in Singapore since 2011, Doan had held regional management roles with Global Markets technology. He was most recently in charge of Digital & Innovation, as well as, Enterprise Architecture at CIB APAC level.

Education. Doan holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Centrale/Supelec Engineering School in France.

Jene Lim

Deputy General Manager - Experian

Jene is the Head of Product Management for Credit Services SEA where she’s responsible for the product development for various consumer and business information such as ACRA, litigation, alternative data, credit bureau data, international credit data, which are made available via various platforms. Such platforms include QuestNet, Bank Bureau, Non-Bank Bureau and also various APIs. During her 3+ years in Experian, she’s led the team through a major rebrand of our reports and platforms from DP Information Group to Experian, launched the new ACRA APIs to enable instant account opening by banks, coordinated various tech upgrades, and also launched various other products such as International Report platform, enhanced monitoring service, Ascend (our big data analytics platform), new scores and score monitoring services.Jene is currently also an Executive Committee Member of the SGTech Digital Trust Committee.

Srinivas Reddy

Technical Lead, Event Tracking Platform - Grab

- Lead Engineer with a decade of experience designing and developing big data applications and platforms in the cloud and on-prem.
- Hands-on knowledge of tools like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, AWS, Presto, Airflow, Scala, and Java.
- Built petabyte(PB) scale multi-tenant cloud data platform and services iteratively.
- Ranked all-time top 11 answerers in StackOverflow for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop, and Spark SQL tagged questions

Faustina Requena

IT Manager and Sustainable IT Leader - L'Oréal

Gundeep Singh Malik

Product Head for Treasury Services & Payments, Singapore & ASEAN - JPMorgan Chase & Co.

15+ years of moving money and securities around the world | Payments Innovation | Custody | Securities Services | FX | Treasury | Liquidity & Cash | Digital Assets

Dheeraj (DJ) Jaggi

Director - BankofApi Technology - NatWest

Dheeraj Jaggi (DJ) an API enthusiastic & Evangelist and Head of API Engineer(India) within NatWest Data & Analytics. He manages the OpenBanking & API Platform from India location for the NatWest Group that includes building APIs for Third Parties Providers, conformance to OpenBanking (PSD2 & FCA) standards & regulations, Account and Payment Initiation APIs, Onboarding and Foundational Microservices. With many years’ experience in the banking and IT space, DJ has delivered many API Products to the market and passionately believes in the transformative power of APIs in any business unit or organisation.

Keziah Quek

Sustainability Lead, Southeast Asia - Capgemini

Keziah navigates and facilitates multi-stakeholder, multi-sectoral sustainability challenges, asking the right questions, making recommendations and effectively communicating her findings to diverse audiences.

Together with her experience as an innovation consultant and startup ecosystem lead, she helps corporations comprehend, identify, and implement cutting-edge solutions. Her work navigates the intersection of sustainability and business objectives, ensuring that organizations can thrive while positively impacting the environment and society at large.

As a dynamic speaker, she has delivered engaging presentations, moderated panel discussions, and conducted training sessions across conferences, webinars and workshops. A key topic she covers is advocating for sustainability as a business driver for long-term success.

Ashish Kakar

Director (Research) Asia Financial Insights - IDC

A career financial services professional with more than 20 years of banking and insurance experience, Dr Ashish now leads financial insights for IDC Asia Pacific. He has featured in Channel News Asia podcasts on banking resiliency, and has addressed audience in House of Lords, UK Parliament on democratizing data to support startups as a part of smart city initiative.

Asif Waquar

Solutions Architect - Munich Re

Asif, is a Solution Architect at Munich Re, Singapore. He drives the development of innovative app solutions by leveraging cutting-edge technologies and cloud-native applications. With over 11 years of diverse experience as a software engineer, solution architect, and product owner, he has successfully navigated roles in both product-based companies and financial institutions.

As a Microsoft MVP for the past 3 years in Microsoft Azure, Asif is not just a certified solution architect but also a passionate developer, blogger, speaker, technical evangelist, and co-organizer of the Microsoft Azure Singapore user group and Data Platform User Group.

PS Lee

Co-Director & Dean's Chair, College of Design and Engineering - Singapore Energy Centre & National University of Singapore

Archana Vaidheeswaran

Data Product Manager - Women Who Code

Hi there! I'm a data product manager with experience in leading teams, establishing partnerships, and delivering technical solutions for both non-profit and corporate organizations. I have managed large-scale virtual workshops, established relationships with global companies, and created data security policies to safeguard member data.

As a LinkedIn Learning instructor, I produced courses on Learning TinyML, MLOps with Vertex AI and am launching two courses on LLMOps. I have also worked as a data scientist and an artificial intelligence engineer, developing forecasting models and chatbots for clients in the manufacturing sector. I'm passionate about consulting on machine learning projects and using data engineering techniques to make the lives of AI engineers easier.

Aaron Tan Dani

Chairman and Co-Founder, IASA Asia Pacific / President, Singapore Computer Society Enterprise Architecture Chapter -

Aaron Tan Dani has a strong passion in the area Enterprise Architecture (EA) related fields. He firmly believes that only with the proper practice of this EA discipline that maximum value of IT investment can be realized by the business. With this keen passion and selfless contribution, he has been actively involved as the Founder and the Chairman of IASA Asia Pacific since 2004 and was actively involved in setting up and leading IASA Chapters across the Asia Pacific countries. He was part of the core team to define the world's first 256 IT Architect's skill set in 2004 in the Seattle, WA, USA. Since December 2009, Aaron has been actively delivering these courses in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea, China and Indonesia, with roadmap to deliver this program across the rest of the Asia Pacific region

As an industry thought leader in the EA arena, Aaron is a frequent public speaker and he speaks with passion and charisma and has been consistently ranked in the top 10% in speaker ratings in most of the international technology events. His charismatic, passionate and entertaining presentation style has been well received. In addition, Aaron is also an Accredited Trainer for TOGAF 9, ArchiMate 3 and he is also an IASA Accredited Trainer (CITA-F & CITA-A) in the field of EA and is the Co-Author of the IASA IT Architecture Body of Knowledge (ITABoK).

In April 2013, Aaron has been officially appointed as an expert in the Community of Practice Enterprise Architecture (COP EA) for the Malaysian public sector by MAMPU under Prime Minister Office to assist in the formation and implementation of MyGovEA, the National Enterprise Architecture initiative. Since then, Aaron has been leading the Digital EA Consulting teams in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Indonesia as part of the ATD Consulting Group to help enterprise clients and governments embarking into the Digital EA adoption to drive continuous digital transformation.

In 2016, Aaron lead the EA SIG under Singapore Computer Society as the Chairman and since 2019, the EA SIG has been promoted to become the EA Chapter where Aaron is taking the role of President of the EA Chapter.

In 2021, Aaron has been appointed as one of the Mentor in the Master of Science in Venture Creation with the National University of Singapore Graduate Research Innovation Programme (NUS GRIP).

Steven Kok Leong Sim

Chair, OT-ISAC Executive Committee, and Member, ISACA Information Security Advisory Group -

Steven Sim has worked for more than 25 years in the cybersecurity field with large end-user enterprises and critical infrastructures, undertaken global CISO role, driven award-winning CSO50 security governance and management initiatives and headed incident response, security architecture, technology, awareness and operations at local, regional and global levels. He leads cybersecurity across large MNC, heading 8 direct reports at Group Cybersecurity Department as well as indirect reports across regional offices and local business units in 42 countries.

He oversees both IT and OT Security Governance, Global Cybersecurity Technology Management and Incident Response as well as Cyber Security Masterplan Office. He also leads the Group IT Security Centre of Expertise and Technology Scanning and Cybersecurity Practice Forum to franchise best practices to business units, driven cyber initiatives, developed standards, managed threats, identified 0day vulnerabilities and promoted awareness.

Always keen to give back to the community, he also volunteers at the ISACA Singapore Chapter (which won ISACA Global Outstanding Chapter Achievement in 2022) as the President (from 2021 to 2022) and OT-ISAC (since 2021), the second key thrust of the SG's OT Cybersecurity Masterplan 2019, as Chair Executive Committee, as well as member of Geneva Dialogue Technical Community, and holds Masters in Computing, CCISO, CGEIT, CRISC, CISM, CISA, CDPSE, CISSP as well as technical certifications GICSP, GREM, GCIH and GPPA.

He is an APMG-accredited trainer for ISACA's core certifications CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT. He is member of both ISACA’s Information Security Advisory Group and Emerging Trends Working Group. He regularly shares his thoughts on cyber risk and security, lectures on an adjunct basis at NUS Institute of System Sciences on Enterprise Security Architecture, and at other institutes of higher learning, speaks and panels at keynotes of both international and local conferences and published several articles. He is also Topic Leader of the Governance Forum at ISACA.

He is recognised with a number of awards including #1 CSO in IDG’s CSO30 ASEAN Awards (2021), CSO50 Program, ISACA Chapter Achievement, ISACA Outstanding Chapter Leader, Tech Talent Builder, Skillsfuture Fellow, Global Cyber Security Thought Leaders (IFSEC), Global Cybersecurity Leader, Top 10 Cyber Security Influencers, Top 10 CISOs of the year, Top 29 Highly Influential CISOs, Top 100 Global CISOs, Professional (Leaders) Finalist in Singapore’s Cybersecurity Awards 2018, etc.

Jayadeba Jena

Senior Director, Chief Architect - Walmart

Senior Leader with excellent record of managing development, architecture, product management and release of complex software products. Hands-on leader with extensive experience in working with Geographically dispersed engineering teams and building multi-region products. Experience in building new platform teams from ground up, creating product innovation CoEs, Expertise in leading organizations (of all sizes) in the platform journey from ground zero, Setting up and running Platform/API programs in Large Organizations and building External Facing Developer Programs. Expert level skills in building Developer platforms, Platform Product Management, Platform business model, Increasing developer effectiveness/velocity, Microservices, Developer Infrastructure Platform Tooling, Identity/Access Management (Using Industry Standard Protocols such as OAuth2, OIDC, FIDO, MFA, SCIM, OPA), API Security, API Design, building SOA frameworks, Cloud Native Development methodology in on-premise, public cloud (AWS, GCP), and hybrid environments with latest and greater technology stack (Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Agile, CI/CD) Software Defined Data Centre, VDI, Enterprise Application Integration,Messaging and Data Platforms and Technologies (Kafka, Spark, Flink, building Data catalogs, Data Governance, Data Pipelines, AWS services(Lake formation, EMR, Athena).

Jean Burellier

Principal Engineer, Platform Team Lead - Sanofi

Being associated with the industry since 2012, I have worked as a Developer, Leader, Architect and now Principal Engineer to build, architect and improve solutions based on APIs and real time communication.

I have been thanked for my work around automation of processes allowing the companies to greatly increase the efficiency of their workflows while improving the developer experience and the quality in the final product. My colleagues know me as a good communicator who likes to use an interactive approach for understanding the requirements and solving problems of varied scope.Working with a plethora of roles - both technical and business - such as lead architect, staff engineer, project manager and CxO but also legal team I have been able to develop keen eyes for various technicalities which helped me in maximizing our products impact's for our customers.

Luca Janssens

Program Manager / Technical Writer - Booking.com

Luca has traveled and lived all over the world, from the little Belgium where he grew up to studying and working in China and Mexico, back to Europe in Amsterdam. He relatively late took an interest in Tech and APIs, but is now very much a fan and proponent of the incredible
versatility and potential of this ever-more-present technology. You can talk to him about food too. The real reason he lived in all these places was for the food, really.

Gaël Duez

Founder - Green IO

I launched Green IO podcast 🎙️ which offers responsible technologists a place to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.For the last 15 years, I have led teams in PropTech, payment service providers, document-processing industry and I have experienced first hand the benefits that digitalization brings to people. At the same time I also lived on 3 continents and witnessed the environmental footprint of human activity on planet Earth. Between Tech for Good and sustainable IT, “Tech” is a key enabler of our ecological transition. But Tech is also a serious contributor to these ecological crises.
In 2021, I decided to focus full-time on this dual issue with a balanced approach. Putting on hold executive positions, I now help teams build greener digital products, using this much needed change as a strategic opportunity for sustainable business development.
I do so by:
- providing open-source content,
- building bridges between communities & networks
- and by leveraging collective intelligence;
based on 3 core values: respect People 🫂 , respect Science 🔬 and respect Earth 🌍.I’m always thrilled to interview doers for knowledge and feedback in the Green IO Podcast and to partner with companies looking to travel further on the Digital Sustainability road.

Silviana

Software Engineer - Handshakes

I am a Software Engineer with a focus on DevSecOps at Handshakes. In my 9-5, my responsibilities include managing our cloud infrastructure, and automating processes to help engineers work more efficiently. In my 5-9, I volunteer for a few meetup groups in Singapore, namely AWS User Group Meetup and AWS Security User Group Meetup.

Faiz Mulla

Sustainability Software Technical Product Leader - IBM

Faiz Mulla is an award-winning IBM Sustainability Manager based in Singapore supporting Worldwide In this role, I work with the Global leadership teams and key functions including Operations, Corporate Real Estate, Compliance and Legal to create and deliver innovative employee programs that help the team feel that their work at IBM has a meaningful impact on our business as well as on the communities in which we operate. I conceptualise and deliver communication, wellbeing and engagement initiatives designed to foster a sense of purpose and team. I also oversee aspects of Global communication including all-staff meetings and content for the annual global meetings and other strategic initiatives.

Faiz joined IBM in Y2008, where he helped start the Global Proposal Center in India as an Information Designer. As a designer, he acquired deep experience working with Consulting projects in the Retail Industry CoC. His knowledge was recognized by IBM Global Business Services (GBS) where he was invited to participate and speak at the National Retail Federation in New York in Y2015 and in Y2016.

He moved to Singapore in Y2016 to lead the Agile infused Strategic Deal Team (consisting of Deal Strategists, Content writers, UI/UX designers and visual Designers) to develop pre-sales proposals (using videos, microsites, journey maps, etc), working closely with GBS/IX on cross-brand ASEAN & AP Market key deals.

Faiz has achieved 5 Stevie Awards, 2 Best in Biz Awards and many more service industry external awards. In 2018 he was selected as a top IBM employee "Best of IBM' and met the CEO at Bahamas, Caribbean. He was also selected for his leadership qualities and attended the 2019 Managerial assessment program (MAP) at Armonk, New York. His creative team supported wins of several million dollars in deals and is a key partner to IBM Consulting.

Faiz was also selected to participate in the IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) where he was assigned to Al-Ain Municipality, Abu Dhabi in Y2013 to create a future city roadmap.

Outside of IBM, Faiz spent time collaborating with external organizations, leading workshops on Enterprise Design Thinking and coaching sellers on the use of personas in client journey maps. He mentors final year design communication students studying in Singapore colleges. He is also appointed a Board Member in the Design Business Chambers of Singapore and runs various not for profit initiatives within Singapore.

Ian Chew

Founder & CEO - Greenie Web

The internet is responsible for up to 1.6 gigatons of CO2 emission - more than the entire pre-COVID aviation industry combined. With rapid digitization by industry & tech adoption in the developing world, its projected to increase by 5 - 7 % a year. Most startups, expertise and capital are devoted to traditional decarbonization. Greenie Web is a Climate-Tech SaaS that fills the gap by tackling this entirely new category of digital decarbonization.In doing so, our work:
1) Enables enterprises achieve their net zero goals
2) Smoothens the energy transition by reducing internet-related energy consumption
3) Provides a low-carbon method to digitize traditional industries & build Web 3.0

Erik Wilde

OAI Ambassador @ OpenAPI Initiative - API Strategist and Content Creator at Getting APIs to Work

With over 10 years of experience in the API field, I am passionate about helping organizations on their digital transformation journeys, making sure that vision, strategy, and technology are aligned, and that they are driven by well-aligned business and organizational initiatives. As an OAI Ambassador at the OpenAPI Initiative, I promote the adoption and use of open standards and best practices for API design and management, and with Getting APIs to Work, I provide consulting and training services for API programs.I have a strong background in digital transformation, API design, and API governance, and I have contributed to many publications, patents, and standards. I have also worked with various industries and sectors, such as healthcare, education, finance, and government, to help them leverage the power and potential of APIs for innovation, integration, and automation. My mission is to help organizations get APIs to work in a truly transformative way, by ensuring that they have the right APIs, and that they design and manage them in the right way.

Danielle Kayumbi

Software Engineer - Capgemini

I have been a software engineer for over 12 years and currently Managing Director of my company DK Wave Technology, publisher of the innovative “Smart Attendance” payroll solution, dedicated to universities and training and learning centers.

Sharing my knowledge is my main driving force. Since 2017, I have contributed to the development of open source solutions by presenting conferences on technical subjects that fascinate me.

Mario Antonio Alvarez Enriquez

Software Engineer, API Group - DHL

I enjoy designing and building complex systems with multidisciplinary teams.

Thirukkumaran Natarajan

Senior DevOps Engineer / Tech Lead - GovTech Singapore

Hands-on experience in designing, developing, hosting and integrating RESTful APIs and API Platforms.

Meticulous understanding of APIs, AWS Cloud, DevOps, Agile Scrum and ITIL best practices.

Brian Liu

Senior Product Manager (API Products) - GovTech Singapore

#Platform and Applications Product Manager with experience in both frontend and backend products.

#Business development manager with an excellent track record for transforming organisational headaches into customer-centric conveniences.

#The 'gel' with a proven ability to improve service delivery and boost staff and organisation morale.

Abhijit Dey

Vice President - Product Head API Banking, WhatsApp and ChatBot - Axis Bank

Abhijit is an accomplished Product Evangelist with a rich background in the BFSI sector. With a demonstrated track record of driving innovation through API management and monetization, Abhijit has made substantial contributions to the industry. His expertise extends to the creation of an Open API framework tailored specifically for banks, showcasing his forward-thinking approach and proficiency in navigating the dynamic landscape of financial services. With a keen understanding of how technology and banking intersect, Abhijit is poised to share invaluable insights with the forum.

Koo Ping Shung

Practicum Director - Data Science Rex

Koo Ping Shung has 20 years of relevant experience in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. He is an instructor, trainer, facilitator for various institutions and Career Conversion Program locally and has taught overseas participants. Besides conducting training, Koo is Data Science & Artificial Intelligence advisor to businesses and startups and has mentored many individuals, professionals and undergrads. His strong passion shines further with him co-founding DataScience SG, one of the largest interest groups/tech communities in the region. He graduated with an Economics degree, a minor in Finance from NUS, and holds an MBA from the University of Adelaide.

Mehdi Medjaoui

Founder and Chairman of Apidays Conferences, Author of Continuous API Management -

Mehdi Medjaoui is the founder of APIdays conferences series worldwide, that he started in 2012 in Paris. He is highly involved in the API community and API Industry, and is a current author, lecturer, consultant and investor in the API space. In 2011 he co-founded OAuth.io, a SaaS OAuth API middleware for OAuth integration and implementation used by 40,000+ developers, that had been acquired in December 2017. His research involves publishing the API Industry Landscape and the yearly State of Banking APIs.

Linda Ikechukwu

Developer Advocate - Smallstep Labs

Linda Ikechukwu is currently a developer advocate at Smallstep Labs, where her mission is to demystify Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and everything certificate usage for developers and DevOps engineers.

Her >4 years as a software engineer (cloud + frontend) built the foundation for her current passion: creating educational content that helps developers learn new technologies. She also runs the website https://www.everythingtechnicalwriting.com.

When she’s not creating tech content, you can find her learning to play the guitar or on the tennis courts.

Jon Scheele

Founder and CEO of Blue Connector, and Organizer of Apidays Singapore -

Jon Scheele provides IT strategy, data analytics, security, interoperability and industry specific consulting and training to management and workgroups at leading companies in the financial services and telecommunications industries. Jon also trains, coaches and mentors to develop high performing teams and identifies how to apply emerging technologies to meet evolving customer needs.

Thibaut Meurgue-Guyard

Singapore Representative - The Digital Collage

Versatile Sustainability practitioner driven focused on crafting meaningful connections and cross-generational solidarity. I am an advocate of an enthusiastic, solution-oriented sustainability that taps into the power of collaborative action.

Strongly involved in NGOs, Versatile Sustainability practitioner driven focused on crafting meaningful connections and cross-generational solidarity. I am an advocate of an enthusiastic, solution-oriented sustainability that taps into the power of collaborative action.Strongly involved in NGOs, student education and impact-driven partnerships!student education and impact-driven partnerships!

Ville Kulmala

Director - datacompany.ai

The strategic use of data has been at the core of my roles for over two decades in the tech industry.

Never before has data strategy had such a profound impact on business success as it does in the current post-AI world. Data will remain a crucial business lever even as we move into the quantum era and beyond.

I believe in the crucial role that data plays in the data-driven future, not only in creating effective digital platforms, AI models, and data-driven operations, but also as a productivity tool for business experts to scale and strive for both business and personal growth.

My key mission is to deliver a coherent Data Strategy that helps companies understand, manage, and grow their data assets.

My background is over two decades in the technology industry, working with enterprise technology vendors, leading business consulting companies, VCs, and delivering technology projects to various blue chips in finance, telecoms, and cross-industry sectors, including Nokia, Heineken International, Papyrus Software, BNP Paribas, Accenture Management Consulting, LogicaCMG, KPN Telecom, ING Investment Management, Areva, Nets, Nissan and ABN AMRO Global Markets.

I'm organiser of DAMA (dama.org) in Singapore and lecture on data and AI governance in leading regional universities.

Rajesh Mhatre

Senior Manager- Transformation and Products - StarHub

Experienced and energetic product professional with over 19 years of dual industry (Telco and Software) experience effectively managing products from conception to completion and technology innovations. I am adept in product management, technology architecture transformation, and developing technology strategy in 5G, API's , MEC , SDWAN, Edge Cloud, NaaS, OSS and Network Slicing orchestration domains.

Akshita Dixit

Backend Engineer - Tata 1mg

Faffa Bosman

Manager, API and Partnership - KONE

Motivated by a challenge, hard working and excels under pressure.
Driven by results and milestones, working within a team or driving a project on solo basis.
Problem solver by nature and wont rest until the problem is solved.
Exceptional interpersonal and listening skills.

Aseem Wangoo

Senior Software Engineer - ShopBack

🚀 Founder of Flatteredwithflutter | T-Shaped Programmer | Application Architect | Full Stack Developer

📝 Technical Writer | Blogger | Event Speaker | YouTuber

📚 Written for tech publications such as FlutterCommunity, collaborated with tech companies, and more. Passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences in the tech world.

💼 With extensive experience in:
Flutter, Dart, GCP (Google Cloud Platform), Firebase, GraphQL, TypeScript, AWS, React, and MongoDB.

🧑‍💻 Working on LangChain, StreamLit, ChainLit, Python, Generative AI and LLMs

Expertise in backend/microservices architecture with Golang, NodeJS and NestJS 🚀

Asim Suvedi

Senior Engineering Manager - ClickSend

People-focused, outcome-driven Engineering Leader with experience scaling/ leading multiple teams through Product Engineering, Operations and Digital Transformation.

Junxiong Ho

Chief Financial Officer - Brankas

Naveen Krishnamurthy

Director of Product - Syfe

Over 15 years of experience in building, managing products and teams in the tech industry.

I have strong fundamentals in product management, product development, and building high-performing teams.

I normally do the following things well, which I think are the key ingredients for a successful organization.
#1 Bringing in multiple teams together
#2 Driving the right decisions
#3 Making sure that the team believes that they can achieve anything.


I like building products that solve meaningful problems. I have been part of FinTech, E-commerce, EduTech industries in building & scaling consumer-facing products and teams across Southeast Asia and India.

Akhil Bhaskar

APJ Compute Leader - AWS

Myee Riri

Engineering Manager - Nutrien Ag Solutions

I work with SECTION6 to deliver Open Source Enterprise Solutions and I work with Nutrien AG to lead teams in delivering digital solutions that serve Nutrien employees and customers.

Arsalan Ellahi

Principal Architect - Kiwibank

I like to empower scale-ups or incumbents with long-term competitive advantage for sustainable growth and high performing teams using fit-for-purpose architecture patterns and practice.

Experienced in FinTech, FitTech, AgriTech, Telco and Retail domains.

Nino Ulsamer

Co-Founder & CTO - StashAway

* 15+ years business & management experience in eCommerce and SaaS startups
* Broad tech knowledge across stacks (Frontend, Backend, Databases, DevOps, Security, Big Data)
* Co-Founder and leadership roles in tech, product and operations teams (80+ employees)
* International exposure to Germany, Russia, US and Asia

Andrei Terentev

Engineering Manager - StashAway

Aiko Klostermann

Technical Lead, Engineering Manager - Open Government Products

I am a seasoned and passionate Technologist and Technology leader. My experience covers Software Engineering, Agile Coaching, and Technical Leadership.

With expertise in a range of tech stacks, frameworks, and languages, including Java, Python, Go, and Javascript/Typescript, I have a strong foundation in both software engineering and cloud infrastructure provisioning and automation. I have a proven track record of success in building fault-tolerant, highly available and scalable distributed systems of microservices. With a strong understanding of software architecture, devops culture I strive for maintainable software through best practices such as TDD, DDD, CI/CD, IaC, pair programming, and SOLID principles.

I am known for my effective communication skills and ability to work with diverse teams and organisations and am passionate about mentoring and sharing my experience in technology through talks, and workshops, my articles have been published by multiple publications and referenced in books.

Tatiana Shepeleva

Staff QA Engineer - StashAway

Tatiana has worked in software engineering for over 10 years, first, as a test automation engineer and now as a product engineer. This experience enables her to oversee gaps between testing and development and provide insights on how to fill them. Fun fact: Tatiana was a digital nomad before it became popular and everyone moved to Bali.

Zhuoran (John) Li

Head of Client Technologies - Endowus

John Li leads Client Technologies at Endowus, Asia’s leading digital wealth platform, where he is responsible for leveraging client analytics to enhance the Endowus client’s user journey, from onboarding to the creation of their first investment goal.

John brings nearly a decade of experience in B2C financial services. Harnessing the best of product sense with technological enablement, John leads his team to effectively wield data points across the organisation, transforming these insights into product iterations, improved investment advice, and increased conversions — while enhancing the overall client experience. He also oversees the generation of valuable data-driven strategies for business decisions, such as go-to-market and campaign strategies.

Under his leadership, John has grown the front-end, customer engagement, and growth engineering teams at Endowus. He also actively contributes to open-source communities of Flutter, React, and other GitHub projects.

Prior to joining Endowus, John was one of the pioneer employees at StashAway as a full-stack developer. He contributed to the foundational engineering works of launching StashAway, while gaining extensive experience in managing sophisticated wealth management systems. During his tenure at Goldman Sachs, John and his team transformed one of the most comprehensive asset management applications into microservices and developed an application to showcase an on-the-fly Dependency Graph of Fundamental Equities Research Data indicators.

Matthew Chua

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Informatives - National University of Singapore

Asst Prof. Matthew Chua is an Assistant Director of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at the Ministry of Defence of Singapore and an Assistant Professor at NUS School of Medicine. At MINDEF, he leads a team of data scientists and partners with IT and Engineering teams to work closely with MINDEF/SAF stakeholders and external agencies to use data science to improve policy outcomes, service delivery and operational efficiency. As a technology leader, he spearheads and operationalize novel and state-of-the-art technologies and algorithms in the organization to transform MINDEF/SAF into a data-first organization. He has also won data science competitions at the national level, clinching 3rd place for the Data VIZard at the Data Arcade Tournament 2022. At NUS, he drives the research and lectures on Artificial Intelligence and Novel Technologies for the advancement of Medicine/Health. He has won prestigious research grants, amounting to more than S$1 million, from Ministry of Health, SG Enable, HealthTEC and internationally. He has also published more than 30 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed international journals and is widely cited. His wide array of expertise makes him a highly sought after collaborator from various industries. He actively fosters closer ties between MINDEF and NUS through education, research and collaboration.

On the side, Matthew is a professional opera singer, being sought after for many local events and celebrations, including The SG50 Concert at the Park, Lee Kuan Yew Memorial Concert, TTSH Gala dinner and many others. He was also the 2nd place winner for The Rising Star Season 3 Competition 2019.

Simon Schillebeeckx

Chief Vision Officer - Handprint

With over 7 years of academic and entrepreneurial experience in sustainability and digitization, I am passionate about creating positive impact and transforming business models for the regenerative economy. I am the founder and chief strategy officer of Handprint, a platform that connects companies to causes that align with their purpose and values, and automates, integrates, reports, and visualizes their positive impact actions.

At Handprint, we are on a mission to regenerate ecosystems and rebuild communities, rather than just minimizing harm. We work with a global impact board to curate fantastic causes, such as the Global Mangrove Trust, which I co-founded to restore and protect mangrove forests. We also leverage blockchain, AI, and data analytics to establish direct impact connections and measure outcomes. By integrating positive impact with strategic KPIs, we ensure that business growth becomes genuinely good for the world. This is how we are cracking capitalism. Join the movement.

Aki Ranin

Founding Partner - Humanitas Maxima

Aki is a tech entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building and scaling technology businesses globally. Leveraging his technical expertise in AI, he has created innovative solutions in B2B, SaaS, and B2C that have won industry awards and impacted millions of users.

Aki has repeatedly led fundraising efforts, assembled high-caliber teams, and rapidly grown companies across multiple geographies.

Author of two technical books on AI and Python programming, and adjunct lecturer at Singapore Management University on the topic of AI. Graduated from Aalto University with an MSc in Computer Science and Industrial Automation.

Indra Salim

Director of Sales and Partnerships - audax

Indra Salim is the Director of Sales and Partnerships for audax, a corporate venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank. audax enables any bank to rapidly deploy and scale digital banking solutions. Based in Singapore, Indra is a crucial part of the team driving go to market sales strategies directly to financial institutions, as well as forging strategic partnerships with other industry players.

With over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, Indra brings a wealth of expertise in partnership management and business development. Prior to his role at audax, he served as a key leader in OCBC Bank, where he led the cards usage and loyalty program, driving innovative solutions to enhance customer engagement and loyalty. Before OCBC, Indra held various managerial positions at Standard Chartered Bank, CIMB, and Citi, where he honed his skills in relationship management, product development, and strategic alliances.

Ritu Mehra

Solutions Architect - Walmart

Working as Solutions Architect with Walmart Labs with 17+ years of industry experience in architecting and developing scalable, robust, secure digital solutions.
As part of Walmart Cloud and compute team , working on architectural blueprints and design standards for multi-cloud enablement on Azure and GCP.

Primarily worked on the Java/J2EE technologies building Web applications, Enterprise applications with distributed architecture, Solr search sub-sytem, API design and development, Micro-services event driven architecture, data ingestion and visualization using industry standard design patterns and open source technologies.

Proficient in continuous integration / deployment using Jenkins build pipelines, and have experience in deploying containerized solutions in cloud computing environment using AWS.

Have worked on big data analysis using Apache Hadoop and Hive.

Previously worked as Technical Lead with AOL, Bangalore in the Media Publishing domain, with experience in UI technologies to develop frameworks for digital distribution of data elements, advertisements together with tracking and reporting technologies.

Also worked as a Development Module Lead with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Bangalore for a period of 6yrs in designing the asset and wealth management platform in the Banking and Financial Services domain.

Extensively worked with the international clients across US and UK markets for requirements analysis, and end to end design and deployment of portfolio management solutions.

Proficient in Agile methodologies Software Development Life Cycle having experience at various levels of requirements collection, application development, system analysis, and design and testing of software related to Web based technologies and Enterprise application development.

Successfully led teams of various sizes, for application design, development and Continuous Integration and deployment.

Globecon certified in “Core Banking and Investment Management (basic) module”.

A self-motivated fast-learner with good logical & analytical skills and an ability to clearly understand and consequently solve problems. Possess commitment, positive attitude, & perseverance to undertake challenging jobs even under pressure.

Fershad Irani

GWF Contributor | Website Sustainability Consultant - Green Web Foundation

I am a website performance consultant based in Taipei. I work with businesses to help them achieve the business outcomes they're after through website optimisations.

My core focus is on reducing the environmental impact of the web. As such I approach every project with a focus on not only achieving business outcomes such as improved conversions, reduced bounce rate etc., but also with a goal to making websites lighter which in-turn reduces their carbon footprint.

Danny Goh

Digital Market Management Manager - BNY Mellon

I have 16+ years of experience in the APAC banking sector, focused on streamlining operations and driving business growth. My current role at BNY Mellon blends product development with sales/marketing strategy for Treasury Services products.

Mark Choo

Head, Federated Learning - AI Singapore

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

Mark is a privacy-AI expert who develops and delivers cutting-edge solutions for protecting data and models in the era of artificial intelligence. He has rapidly advanced in his career, thanks to the recognition of his contributions in architecting and implementing softwares that enable privacy-preserving techniques such as federated learning, differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, multiparty computation, and adversarial robustness. He is a sought-after speaker and mentor in the privacy AI community, sharing his insights and experience at various conferences and events. His passion is to empower organisations and individuals to harness the power of AI without compromising their privacy or security.

Natasha Ann Lum

Technology Evangelist - Women Who Code

Just a divergent inquisitive and fire starter who loves exploring the interconnections across various domains through building and scaling ideas and communities, and taking people along the ride with me!

I also build apps 🙂

Reach out to me if any one of the communities I am in across my LinkedIn is of interest of you! I am in need of help everywhere and would love to chat with you and get you involved!

Ramachandra Prabu

Vice President - Lead, Web & Hybrid Frontend UI/UX Architecture and Engineering - DBS Bank

I am a Senior Technology Leader and Executive Decision Maker who has been helping drive business change for stakeholders across multiple continents through my 18 years of experience in modern front-end web, hybrid and mobile frameworks, architecture, agile methodologies, public clouds, and DevOps. I have worked in banking, financial services, education, and healthcare sectors in international settings across Singapore and India. My expertise lies in UI/UX architecture, digital transformation, team management, and project delivery.

I have an outstanding track record in building automatic pipelines with quality gates, continuous integration, and continuous development with DevOps engineering. Additionally, I have a proven competence in providing architectural solutions for banking and financial domain projects and am proficient in public cloud computing. I have honed my skills in leading and working with high-performing, multi-cultural, and cross-functional teams in delivering and deploying multiple remote and on-site projects. My core programming language technical skills include Javascript, Angular, React, HTML & CSS, EXTJS, and Java.

My professional certifications include TOGAF - Enterprise Architecture Certification and AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate. I am an expert in delivering internal and external presentations to technology and business experts, contributing to informed decision-making processes.

My key functional strengths include UI/UX Architecture, Front-end Web Development, Mobile, Micro front-ends & Hybrid Frameworks, Architectural Solutions, Public Cloud Computing, Strategic Planning & Digital Transformation, Project Management & Delivery, Agile Methodologies, CICD & DevOps Engineering, Executive & Team Leadership, and Stakeholder Relationship Management.

David Mok

Payment Gateway Value-Added Services Manager - Mastercard

David is the payment gateway value-added services lead for Mastercard Asia Pacific, with coverage of >10 markets - looking after the enablement and prioritization of features which deliver customer delight.

In his ~7 years with the company, David has experience across different roles in product management, account management, innovation and strategic partnerships.

David leads the >250 member Young Professionals (YoPros) Business Resource Group in Mastercard’s Singapore chapter, and enjoys discussing career advice, hiking as well as playing foosball in his free time.

Eugene Wong

Senior DevOps Engineer - Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Passionate about technology, security, SRE practices, and wine. Hit me up with the latest technology or security buzz!

Umang Moondra

CEO - APIX

Umang is a transformation leader with over 20 years of business management, operations & technology, client delivery and sales experience with Citigroup, leading business units of up to US$ 500 mn across Asia Pacific. He has a track record of crafting and leading change driven by strategy, culture, digitization and automation, aimed at quantum leaps in bottom line, revenues, client delivery and risk mitigation.

Having worked in five Asian countries and led teams of over 3,000 professionals, Umang has demonstrated experience in building empowered teams locally and regionally, and leading transformation across cultures. His cross-functional experience provides him with a unique understanding of the end-to-end connectivity in an organization and the ability to foster relationships across stakeholders.

Umang is a Board Member at YouTrip and has served twice as Secretary of the Singapore Fintech Association. He is also an angel investor.

Claudio Tag

Chief Architect – IBM Automation – APAC - IBM

Claudio Tag is the IBM Automation Chief Architect in Asia Pacific, leading the Technical Sales team in the region, and has vast experience in Digital Transformation and the world of Cloud. He is passionate about technology, and how it has shaped business change in the 21st century. Making the "complicated" "business as usual" has been Tag’s focus in his 10+ years career in technical sales.

Through his work as C-suite trusted advisor and domain expert for IBM's and Red Hat’s ground-breaking technologies, Tag has gained significant insight into today's senior IT stakeholders’ motivations. He has led several technical sales teams across geos and technology domains: from process automation to private cloud, from containerization to open source software.

Tag also worked in various IBM labs, and presented his work at several conferences around the world, focusing on Public and Private Cloud, Kubernetes, Automation, Integration, Microservices Architectures, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. He is an open source evangelist, thought leader in Agile Integration and Cloud Orchestration & AI Operations, and author of three IBM Redbook publications.

John Power

CEO - Ostia

John Power has over 40 years experience in software development and has focused on the the design and deployment of APIs / API Ecosystems for the past 20 years.

Disha Gera

Solution Architect - Standard Chartered

• Integration Solution Professional with 14yrs of Experience.
• In-Depth Understanding of Solution Design and Architecture with good understanding
of the many technologies and architectural principles, especially API-centric Architecture, OAuth2.0
authentication Protocols, SOA, ESB.
• Work closely with Business to provide technical expertise in designing Customer Journeys with extensive knowledge of backend systems.
• Lead Technology in Business and External Partnership workshop in designing Customer Journeys with domain expertise in Payments,Retail Banking.
• Expert in API Architecture, API Management and API Security.
• Ability to manage internal and external Stakeholders across business, innovation, Partner organizations.
• Provide solutions /documentations to the Delivery team.
• Laid foundation stones of API design and Processes in API team.
• Active Member of API/SOA governance team
• Experience across Banking and financial services, Retail and Gaming/Trading industries
• Agile Practitioner

Leo Cullen

Head of Business Development - Ostia

Leo Cullen is a product and business development specialist with over 20 years experience developing and promoting online services aimed at the banking and financial service sectors.

Paul Bradley

COO & Co-Founder - Excelsa

Experienced Director with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Mobile Content, Telco, Mobile Applications, Software as a Service (SaaS) and APIs. Strong information technology professional graduated from Imperial College London.

Marc Friend

CEO - Rapid

I have 30+ years experience as CFO, COO, board member, and VC investor driving enterprise SaaS and consumer internet companies from startup to $250M+. As a CFO, I've been a trusted advisor to Boards and CEOs, hired to turn around companies, scale operations globally, lead capital markets & fundraising, and manage investor relations. I've recruited and built multiple Finance teams and leveraged my MS and BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT to work cross-functionally across product and engineering.

I'm proud of my track record of growth, profitability, and successful exits. I've successfully raised $100M+ of venture debt and equity. As CFO of Sun Basket, I turned the $200M company by $30M at the bottom line into profitability and led capital markets efforts yielding a merger valued at $1B+. As COO and CFO of Intalio, I successfully restructured, financed and executed M&A exit to three strategic buyers, yielding 100% employment and 5X+ return.

Finally, before my executive roles, I had extensive Board and capital markets experience as a VC and entrepreneur. I served as General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners, and Summit Partners and led successful investments in application servers (NetDynamics, acquired by Sun Microsystems), firewalls (Check Point, NASDAQ: CHKP) and SaaS (Salesforce, NASDAQ: CRM). While at USVP, I co-founded Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects), a pioneering Business Intelligence company. My start-up career began as a Director of Product Management at Channel Computing - bringing the first business intelligence tool to the Windows platform.

Outside of work, I'm a 4-time Boston Marathon finisher, 3-time Ironman and triathlete completing over 25 Half-Ironman races.

Naveen Nandan

Solutions Engineer - Confluent

Naveen is a Solutions Engineer with Confluent and works with customers and partners to help design, architect and implement event-streaming systems. Previous experience includes various aspects of systems architecture. Outside of work he is interested in sports, food and movies.

Alex Szomora

GTM Senior Project Manager, Open Gateway - GSMA

Results-oriented leader with over 15 years of experience in fintech, digital industries (including telco and cyber security), and venture investing, with a focus on the Southeast Asia region. Proven track record in sourcing, analyzing, and executing investment deals, as well as managing and growing businesses. Skilled in communication, presentation, negotiation, and team leadership. Passionate about supporting the growth of innovative startups in emerging markets.

Sohaib Tariq

Product Manager - APIMatic

Sohaib Tariq is an Engineer turned Product Manager who likes to spend his time at the intersection of technology and business. He has been involved in the API Industry for the past 5 years building APIs and API development tools.

Ryan Ashneil

Software Engineer - Government Technology Agency of Singapore

Why hello there, dear reader! My name is ryan, a tech enthusiast and a budding software developer at your service.

I deeply revere the belief that people are always seeking ways to make the world a better place, be it through arts, science, technology, or even education. I would very much like to follow in this humble endeavour! Our generation is blessed with an abundance of tools to join this pursuit, mine just so happen to be a digital one, the kind that I am ever so avid about 🙂

In a quickly evolving digital world, I have been seeking out guidance from the people who are walking the path I hope to take. I have taken every experience so far as a learning opportunity for me to grow as a better techie, a better problem-solver, and a better person. Someday, I aspire to be just as guiding for the generation to come (techies and non-techies alike!), and am very much looking forward to see what they can come up with to make the lives of the people around them that much better through tech and other creative problem solving ways 🙂

Here’s to a better future, a better world!

Keith Chan

Solution Architect, IBM Client Engineering - IBM

Cloud certified technologist who enjoys learning and building holistic solutions for business stakeholders at speed, whilst effectively articulating technology value in addressing client’s needs and challenges.

Timothée Dufresne

Deputy Managing Director - Zenika

I am always curious and enthusiastic to bring my experience to solve complex issues in different industries/domains.

I value more human interaction, and I emphasise customer/partner collaboration over contract negotiation.

Jai Prakash

Software Consultant - Zenika

- Experienced Senior Backend Developer specializing in Java, Spring Boot, and its ecosystem.
- Proficient in React Js with Typescript.
- My career has spanned diverse domains, including Payments, Logistics, and Banking.
- In addition to my daily responsibilities, I actively contribute to the community by hosting, attending meetups, and providing training

Ken Wee

SVP Partnership and New Business - Bridge Alliance

Experienced senior executive with a demonstrated history of working in telecommunications industry. Strong professional in business strategy, sales, business development, technical support services and development of innovative programs and approaches to achieve measurable impact and deliver value to the company.

Cécile Delettré

Editor & Global Events - Climate Fresk, Digital Collage -

Cécile Delettré has International experiences, working in the USA , Germany, France, Thailand, Singapore as Managing director, head of Marketing- Communication, public affairs, trade officer, Business development executive, think tank founder, board member and digital stategist . She is a change maker focusing on innovation, impact and meaningful actions.

She contributes to develop the knowledge about sustainability and CSR, in communication for brands & NGO as she is facilitator for serious games : climate fresk, Digital collage and fresque of new stories.

She worked for conferences and trade events in different areas with startups, entrepreneurs, ambassadors, ceo and diplomates in more than 20 countries and main events as DAVOS, CES, Web Summit, Cebit, DMA USA ...

She is passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Open Innovation and was the VP of IT and Digital economy for les CCE a professional network with 4000 members in the world. She holds a MBA in Strategic Marketing from IFG-Laureate Paris and Georgetown University (Washington). She is board member at Club des Annonceurs, was Executive member of Global DMA. Her motto is “experience the world, connect people, trust each other and succeed together”.

Cecile organised events in more than 20 countries during the last 12 years.

She works with global organizations on different scales e.g : adviser, benchmark, Digital and social media strategy.
Events : talents, train speakers, organise conferences & Learning expeditions, Social media & communication campaigns…

She participates to make the world a better place to live by creating a Global Network #IntFem to promote the mobility, share international experiences and balance the vision and decisions between women and men. The attendees comes from Startups and SME, in multicultural environment.

Yong Sheng Tan

Solutions Architect - Orkes

I am a financial technology professional excited about delivering solutions that drive efficiency from increased automation, systems collaboration, or workflow re-engineering. I have a technical background in software development across web, mobile and desktop solutions as well as a deep appreciation of enterprise architecture and cloud infrastructure. I am adept in managing software delivery lifecycles using the Agile methodology and believe firmly in elevating business value as an outcome to improve business-technology synergy.

Nick Dearden

Field CTO - Confluent

Nick Dearden is an accomplished engineering and product leader with extensive experience in the world of data and analytics. He has held multiple leadership roles at Confluent and currently serves as the Field CTO, leading the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at Confluent. With over 25 years of experience, Nick leverages his expertise to design and explain the power of streaming data platforms for businesses. Prior to Confluent, he led the data platform and products group for a leading online real-estate seller and was chief architect for a cloud-based financial analytics platform. Nick’s career stretches back to the green-screen days of mainframe banking systems, and he has been involved in multiple data warehouse and business intelligence adventures.

Sami Ahmed

Staff Solutions Engineer - Confluent

Sami is a Strategic Solutions Engineer at Confluent specializing in Financial Services (FSI). He leverages tools across the streaming technologies stack to help FSI companies realize their use cases, including realtime fraud detection applications, transactional systems, and bridge to cloud. He has worked with Globally Systemically Important Banks in the US and now serves Confluent's FSI customers within APAC. Before FSIs, he enabled data streaming use cases for small and medium-sized companies in various industries including healthcare, IoT, e-commerce, and aerospace.

Joanna Reijgersberg-Siew

Senior Director, Data & AI - Avanade

Regional business development and solutions leader of IoT, Data & AI in the B2B space with 20 years of international work experience (Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Indonesia, US) in Business Development, Corporate Strategy and Software engineering at Avanade (Accenture & Microsoft JV), Signify (Formerly Philips Lighting), Philips, NXP & Creative Technology.

I currently lead the AI & IOT Practice in Growth Markets in Avanade where we bring new edge technologies, AI, Computer Vision, NLP, Cognitive Search, Digital Twins solutions to the market. On a side hustle I also run Memeverse, a highly specialised hustle focused on NFTs and Web3, where I bring companies and individuals in touch with this decentralised Metaverse. In short we are the brokers of the Metaverse.

Extremely creative. I love technology and translating innovation into value creating business needs for our customers. Very comfortable managing relationships at C-level. Speaker at Asia and Europe’s largest Cloud/IoT conferences.

INSEAD Executive MBA with a Masters in Computer Science from Linköping University and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore - ranked as the top Business School in the world and the top university in Asia with full stack engineering know-how and IEEE networking publications & patents. Azure and AWS Cloud Certified.

Ned Lowe

CTO and Co-Founder - MISSION+

I live to design and build products, and create teams that share my passion.

My company and I help organisations and individuals who need help with their technology and product build out. Reach out to me if you want a discussion on how to upskill your engineering and design capabilities.

Madhu Sudan

Fractional CTO - MISSION+

As a fractional CTO at MISSION+, I help clients and SMEs achieve their digital transformation goals by providing strategic guidance, technical leadership, and hands-on implementation. I have over 8 years of experience in enterprise integration, working with Singapore-based digital insurers and US-based Fortune 500 giants.

I am a subject matter expert in identity providers, site reliability engineering, micro-service architecture, cloud migration, IAC. I have successfully delivered multiple projects using technologies such as Okta, Keycloak, Redhat SSO, Firebase, Cognito, TYK, WSO2, Mulesoft, and Kong API Gateway. I have obtained certifications from Okta, Red Hat and AWS. I have domain expertise in insurance and retail, and a passion for solving complex problems with innovative solutions.

Jakub (Kuba) Ruzicka

VP Engineering - Eyos

Kuba is 👨‍💻 a technology leader, software engineer and 🧑‍🏫 university lecturer based in 🇸🇬 Singapore (as a true digital nomad, chances are you can meet him in various places around the world 😊)

He 🤍 enjoys software development, systems design, machine learning, text mining, blockchain, ethical hacking, product design and development, and prototyping tech innovations 🚀

Taking an active part in this small (r)evolution 🧬, Kuba is currently riding the AI wave 🌊 and advises businesses and individuals on how to empower people, upgrade products and boost back-office operations with Generative AI and LLMs 🤖, while continuing to upskill in this domain himself 🤓

Understanding the 🌏 APAC biz and cultural environment in recent years and taking perspectives on 🌍 EMEA helped him not only to grow as a professional but also to become a better person as a result 🧘

Kuba serves as the voice of our global Tech Team at 🟣 eyos.one, where we create a unique worldwide point-of-sales device network and facilitate its evolution from multiple product verticals to a ☁️ SaaS platform

Kuba's past experience includes CTOing startups 🌱 (creativedock.com), turning startups into scale-ups 📈 (most recently twisto.cz's acquisition by zip.co with a team of 👥 80+ engineers), being part of global teams 🌐 (Atos, Deloitte, KPMG), academia 🎓 (Czech Technical University and Charles University in Prague), freelancing and advisory to keep in touch with latest technologies 💪, and volunteering to give back to the community 🙋‍♀️ (mentoring and nonprofit)

Kuba is passionate about everything related to education 📚, loves 🏃 running and any sports in general, 🌳 nature and hiking, and helps startups and scale-ups in his free time to stay on top and encourage thinking outside the box 💡

Aulia Amin

GM Data Solutions API Business - Telkomsel

Aulia serves as the General Manager at Telkomsel, where he oversees the beyond-telco API Business, focusing on insights, verification, and authentication. He spearheads the Telkomsel API Marketplace (Digihub), which serves as a central hub for Telkomsel's API offerings.

With over 15 years of expertise in AI, Analytics, and Product Management, Aulia has been instrumental in launching innovative services, including Indonesia's first Telco Credit Score in 2018, significantly enhancing BFSI's capability to engage millions of previously unreachable customers.

Currently, he oversees the development and distribution of various APIs aimed at BFSI and other industries, including Location Verification, Income Prediction, and Silent Authentication (Mobile Network Verification). He holds a master's degree in Advanced Computer Science with a specialization in Analytics from The University of Manchester.

Philippe Benedetti

Head of Application Development - Palo IT

Philippe has always been driven by a passion for technology and innovation. Graduating with a master’s degree in Information Systems from Paris Dauphine university, he provided IT consultancy services to large organisations in France including Total Group.

Realising that Singapore was fast developing in the technology space, Philippe decided to move there in 2011 and explore opportunities to develop his entrepreneurial spirit. By 2012, he had launched a social platform targeting a younger local audience which led to new ventures and opportunities across multiple industries including mobile advertising, F&B and HR.

During this time, he helped building up Art of Click, mobile advertising agency across Asia Pacific and he co-founded UShift, in partnership with Rocket Internet. This exposure enabled Philippe to develop cutting-edge, innovative cloud based solutions comprising synchronisation, integrated communication flows and data streaming at scale, as well as leading and managing Tech teams globally.

In 2017, he joined StyleTribute.com, a Singaporean luxury second-hand platform. In 2018, after discovering the circularity in Fashion, they launched Reflaunt where he is now CTO, leading a team of multicultural engineers covering multiple aspects of Resell and E-commerce for Reflaunt and Giant of the fashion industry (H&M group, Net A Porter group, Balenciaga, Ganni, Axel Arigato,…). Philippe is constantly searching for new technologies and processes to enhance Reflaunt’s seamless offering to brands which allows them to enter the resale market segment.

Sury Nagarajan

Solutions Director - Integration & API, Asia - Software AG

Sury Nagarajan, is Solutions Director for Asia, for Integration & API business at Software AG. He has over 20 years of industry experience advising customers on digitalization and their digital journey. He has been a regular speaker at API Days, BrightTalk and other community forums.

Vinita Gulati Dargan

Head of API Pre-Sales and Solution Architect - Tata Consultancy Services

Vinita is the API Lead for Enterprise Integration at Tata Consultancy Services. She has 21 years of High-end Consulting, Technology Transformation, Presales & Solutioning and end-to-end Project Delivery experience in the Enterprise Integration and API space leveraging multiple API Management platforms.

She closely engages with C-Suite, Executive and Senior stakeholders across multiple industry segments and geographies for Digital transformations in the API and Integration space Led the Technology transformation via Enterprise APIfication leading to multi million cost savings for multinational Telecommunication company Led Enterprise Integration Modernization for Life Sciences, Banking and Manufacturing customers Setting up a center of enablement for leading transport and logistic company and responsible for API Evangelization Led APIFication Assessment for several customers to fit their modernization journey. Participated in multiple API transformation opportunities from assessment to API Lifecycle Management to evangelization, as part of overall Digital transformation journey.

Balakrishnan B

Principal Architect - Red Hat

* Seasoned technophile with over 18 years of experience in design, development and implementation of high-performance business critical applications and software solutions

* Has in-depth expertise in building solutions portfolio and delivering both pre and post sales expertise around the following streams with key focus on architecture, implementation, assessment and optimization for a wide range of industry-leading customers in Asia Pacific region:
- building generative AI solutions with Retrieval Augmented Generation and Large Language Models
on-boarding workloads/applications onto Kubernetes
- adoption of containers and container platforms on hybrid cloud
- application modernization & containerization
- application and multi cluster platform observability
- cloud native application development

* Seasoned in presenting solutions and technology solutions/stacks to senior executives, managers, directors and architects

* Gained extensive domain experience in various industry sectors through performing technical leadership roles in projects for an array of leading organizations across APAC

* Proficient in build strong relationships and driving large deals and strategic accounts

* Adept in building new initiatives and programs across solution engineering and services with prime focus on landing and expanding product portfolio with clients

* Continuous learner that consistently builds new skills by actively experimenting with new concepts and undertaking hands-on exploration

Jari Myllyla

VP of Pre-Sales - Frends

Jari Myllylä brings over 20 years of expertise in integration and software development with low-code and rapid application development tools, helping companies streamline processes across different B2B and B2C organizations. His career path spans developer, architect, team leader, and entrepreneur, culminating in his current role as VP of Presales at Frends iPaaS. Jari holds a Master’s Degree in Industrial Management and Materials Science.

Carlos Rufo

Senior Software Engineer - Hygraph

With a decade immersed in the tech industry, Carlos Rufo, an experienced Software Engineer, specializes in crafting product-centric, high-performing solutions, leveraging his extensive knowledge and innovative approach to drive success in cutting-edge organizations. Known for his technical skills, leadership abilities, and ambition, Carlos has built a solid reputation in the tech arena. Passionate about delivering exceptional results, Carlos fosters a collaborative culture where team members feel empowered to unleash their full potential. He excels in clear communication, skillfully conveying complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring organizational alignment and smooth information flow. A data-driven decision-maker, Carlos leverages insights to propel revenue growth and enhance profitability. With a keen eye for trends and opportunities, he constantly seeks ways to elevate products and maintain a competitive edge, using his business savvy to guide decisions in the company's best interest. In his previous roles, Carlos has led the development of numerous high-performance products, assembling skilled teams and ensuring project success within timelines and scope. Known for his negotiation skills and ability to forge fruitful partnerships, Carlos is skilled at crafting mutually beneficial solutions.

Alex Walling

Chief Strategy Officer - Rapid

Throughout my career, I have consistently excelled in developing and implementing strategies that simplify complex technical concepts for enhanced business performance. My experience includes successfully leading organizations through extremely transformative phases (both in hyper growth and market downturn), defining long-term objectives, and optimizing operations to achieve sustainable success. With a strong background in sales, developer relations, team management, and software engineering, I possess a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen that drives revenue growth and fosters cross-functional collaboration. I thrive in dynamic environments, consistently pushing myself beyond what seems possible at the time. My ability to provide strategic guidance, shape vision, and optimize operations has been instrumental in delivering results for the organizations I have worked with.

Sergiu Bodiu

Cloud Technical Advisor | DevOps - Red Hat

Established APAC Transformation Office at Red Hat in 2020. How many business leaders are tracking actual delivery results of transformations, rather than measuring via project plans and cost centers? Sergiu brings an applied background in strategic planning, complex change management, process transformation, and technology enablement to organisations seeking to continually evolve the way they deliver value and build highly engaged, collaborative cultures.

Agile and DevOps transformations are starting to get board level visibility as the need to become a software innovator becomes critical to company survival. But how many of these transformations are on track in terms of producing the results that the business is expecting?

Leads with informed, clear strategies in various roles:
• Technology Director
• Business Strategist & Consultant
• Technologist - emerging trends
• Complex technical project management

Specialties:
• Business relevant innovative technology solutions
• Customer-driven business transformation
• Alignment across organisational units and teams

Sergiu was selected on the list of Top 100 Fintech mentors in Singapore. He is the organiser of DevOps meetup, and annual conference DevOpsDays Singapore and is the founder of Singapore Spring User Group

Vasudev Kolar

Product Line Manager (Network as Code / Network Monetization Platform) - Nokia

15+ years of experience in the Telecom industry working in various roles in R&D, Product Management, Solution Architect.

Ettikan Karuppiah

Director/Technologist - NVIDIA

Dr. Ettikan Kandasamy Karuppiah, Technologist/Director at Nvidia, ROAP Region works with innovators, researchers and techno-entrepreneurs to accelerate AI & GPU adaptation for their translational R&D and software solutioning needs. He has direct experience and passionate in accelerated computing, embedded software, autonomous systems, machine learning, deep learning, solution design and development covering end-to-end needs in various industry verticals. Currently he guides researchers and developers at research labs, development centers and disruptive startups to implement actionable solutions for real world problems meeting specific requirements leveraging Nvidia GPU/DPU software/hardware capabilities. He has published numerous publications, patents and developed software libraries in past years.

Jagannath Narendran

Director, Apigee & Application Integration APAC - Google

Seasoned General Manager with Asia Wide experience in building, leading & transforming people and businesses. With over two decades of industry leadership in Technology, Cloud transition & Transformation, I have had the multitudinous experience of having worked with a large as well as medium software enterprise companies across Asian markets. My approach to business growth is built around the fact that a solution has its origin in the Customer’s needs.

I have been involved in creating these solutions with large companies with preset and packaged solutions as well as those where one needs to be entrepreneurial , rolling up one's sleeves and getting down to the trenches to devise solutions to help teams and customers win. In the sometimes revolutionary, but always evolutionary landscape of the high tech industry, this gamut of experience has been a key driver in my achievements.

I lead from the front by building and nurturing the key customer relationships. I’m deeply engaged in orchestrating different functions of an organisation like sales, marketing, product and customer service to impact growth.

On the personal front, I lead with EQ and build leadership teams based on a culture of debate and openness. My aim is to simplify and synthesize complex information and present it as a compelling story.

JinWon (James) Lee

Security Solution Architect - F5

Hari Aditya

Product Director - Aspire

8+ years experience in product design and management in technology industry, primarily on software development and publishing. I have spent majority of my career building early-stage startup companies - filling the necessary gap to help them grow into regional presence.

My exposure to various roles in startup tech industry includes data analytics, digital marketing, influencer marketing, UX design, sales/account management, project management, and QA.

I led the founding and general operations activities of Daylight Studios' two subsidiaries, Quest Drop and Madeviral across Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia office.

Adrian Melillo

CTO & Head of Advisory Services - Excelsa

Insightful technologist and Leader with deep knowledge of API, AI, security, data and cloud domains as well as the Financial Services industry across investment, retail and asset management. Within technology companies, a senior executive with a track record of creating strategies necessary to grow multi-$M software and services businesses that support tangible business outcomes in their customer base. Energetic, passionate and commercially astute executive with a demonstrated track record in providing outstanding leadership ranging from large multi-nationals to mature startups. I have been fortunate to work with and lead amazing teams across sales, customer success, as well as technical consultancies at partner level. Passionate about topics such as Open Banking, Responsible AI and how to get value out of technology spend.

Sandeep Joshi

Managing Director - Massivue

An accomplished executive, transformation leader, and sustainability champion with a successful track record of leading enterprise transformations across industries. Expert in sustainable business strategies, digital transformation, and culture transformation.

Extensive experience in Finance, Insurance, Telecom, and Retail industry verticals. Led, Delivered, and Coached Digital, Consumer, Institutional/ Corporate banking product development, consulting, infrastructure operations, technology innovations, and building high-performing engineering teams.


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